Posted on 06/17/2015 1:17:10 PM PDT by Zakeet
What little strategic bombing that was done in WW1 ended up damaging more private property and killing civilians than military targets which were almost never hit in these missions.
and yet we managed to win WW2.
I’m not particularly thrilled to be “defending” hands-on Uncle Joe.
However, I assume he was talking about the postwar period, when Germany and Japan built their infrastructure from the ground up because it had been destroyed in the war, while it was more profitable to leave our prewar infrastructure in place and invest in other things, like pantyhose factories.
More profitable for a while, that is. Probably to some extent an unintended consequence of our remarkably short-term focus when making business decisions. If you’re judged on quarterly returns, hardly anybody will be thinking ten or twenty years out. Why should they ?
His point actually is a truism, if you make an attempt to edit out all the brainfarts.
To say nothing of our petroleum extraction infrastructure in ANWR and our petroleum exporting industry.
Joe’s on the loose and mangling the facts and history again!!
From my observation of history, the US squandered an opportunity in the 1945-60 period when choices were made that meant we cashed in on our putative #1 position in every category of commerce and dominated the world. However, we were also re-building our former enemies and they were making technology and process leaps through investment that allowed them to cash in later. Additionally, they didn’t have to put a lot of their capital into defense because we set it up so they couldn’t/wouldn’t/shouldn’t do so. Basically, a perfect storm for short term gains at the expense of the long term.
You know, I’ve always thought the B-58 Hustler would have been a significant advantage during the Civil War.
Unless the opposing side had BOMARC.
Can I have your vote?
Oh gosh, what a great idea for an animation! Lol
Gaffe or not, he irritates! My dad was working in a Steel Mill and going to night school at Carnegie Tech at the time.
We did better in WW II. 1000 bomber raids make it easy to destroy a factory. 2500 tons of bombs, a few had make it through.
“I suspect the point he was trying to make is that after WWII the Germans and Japanese rebuilt with modern technology that was more efficient than our older steel tech.”
Yes, in his moronic, ham-handed way he was trying to point out what you’ve said above. But as usual, he missed the target. We should have “bombed” the steelmakers boardrooms and the union HQ’s, because that’s where the United States problem was with respect to steelmaking. And we could have done it quicker than the Axis countries because we already had the plants.
No, and our fighters came from France and the UK.
I’m pretty sure we didn’t rebuild Germany’s steel factories after WW1, either.
Joe Biden is an idiot.
WHO ARE YOU!
Joe is one heartbeat away from being president
Was Animal House a documentary and Senator Blutarsky was really Joe Biden?
Biden, though, can be counted on to say that kind of stuff. If he didn't always shoot himself in the foot like this, we might have to worry about him becoming president, so maybe we should be glad that he's forever making a fool out of himself before he gets to a place where he could do greater harm to the country.
Works for me...
When Germany bombed Pearl Harbor we attacked Japan.
It’s a messed up world but, there it is....
Yup, he’s still brain damaged.
This is bizarre even for Biden.
Maybe he needs his Plugs changed.
He's talking out of his ass. He does it all the time. It's kind of expected there.
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